'the sixties, and' timothy r gates, 2/8/2008
the sixties
one guitarist barely made it in them,
the other near the end of the 20th century;
creativity?
i do remember,
well, either way, I do recall:
free love, free everything,
didn't think we'd make it to 20,or 30
then didn't know what to do.
the sixties, the good ole days?
my Grandfather, born w/in a decade of America's first Civil War,
not the sixties,but the N & S,
used to say,
'the only folks that talk about the good ole days are those that don't remember them.'
he talked about them,
but not like they were better,
just that they 'were' then, now is now.
Purple Haze, Black Magic Woman,
still arouse paisley dreams, swirling
then, we awoke,again,
thought it was cool,
but truly didn't know what the what was.
still was fun.
still, against the wind,
believe.
'it's all about the music!'
yes,it is,
if we get what this means.
It is all about the present note,
the one that we choose to play.
Here is found,
the Mystic Tour,
where's there no need to get off,
now:
(let's pay, we have.)
Let's play.
do we do more of the same?
proliferation of complaints,
masks for party till we drop,
all the while The Bomb is still being dropped,
not getting it,
that 'we're the man' (or, sadly, the woman is the same today)?
neo-sixties, worthless if it's only more of the same,
let's see how many things we can accumulate
with the sixties flavor,
and the hell with those that are unable to accumulate.
pipe dreams if only smoked
are merely more of the same,
only more fun:
Orwell and Bradbury, both antiquated required reading,
fiction,
but more true than his-story;
Socrates said the same things.
Jesus did too.
Buddha too.
JFK too:
'It's not what' -whatever and whoever- 'can do for you that matters;
it's what you do that,' -now,- t'hat does'
Mother Teresa showed us how,
(not her billions raised for Rome)
'feed the millions of starving people,
visit the millions of lonely people,
care for the billions of our neighbors?.....
one person-soul at a time.'
It not the sixties, or any other time that matters.
It is now!
The Lion reclines with the Lamb?Behind every myth is some truth. G.K. Chesterton once said, 'We tell our young about Dragons not so much because they are real or they are not real; rather we tell fairy tales about dragons to our young in order that when they encounter a Dragon that they might be defeated.'
the sixties
one guitarist barely made it in them,
the other near the end of the 20th century;
creativity?
i do remember,
well, either way, I do recall:
free love, free everything,
didn't think we'd make it to 20,or 30
then didn't know what to do.
the sixties, the good ole days?
my Grandfather, born w/in a decade of America's first Civil War,
not the sixties,but the N & S,
used to say,
'the only folks that talk about the good ole days are those that don't remember them.'
he talked about them,
but not like they were better,
just that they 'were' then, now is now.
Purple Haze, Black Magic Woman,
still arouse paisley dreams, swirling
then, we awoke,again,
thought it was cool,
but truly didn't know what the what was.
still was fun.
still, against the wind,
believe.
'it's all about the music!'
yes,it is,
if we get what this means.
It is all about the present note,
the one that we choose to play.
Here is found,
the Mystic Tour,
where's there no need to get off,
now:
(let's pay, we have.)
Let's play.
do we do more of the same?
proliferation of complaints,
masks for party till we drop,
all the while The Bomb is still being dropped,
not getting it,
that 'we're the man' (or, sadly, the woman is the same today)?
neo-sixties, worthless if it's only more of the same,
let's see how many things we can accumulate
with the sixties flavor,
and the hell with those that are unable to accumulate.
pipe dreams if only smoked
are merely more of the same,
only more fun:
Orwell and Bradbury, both antiquated required reading,
fiction,
but more true than his-story;
Socrates said the same things.
Jesus did too.
Buddha too.
JFK too:
'It's not what' -whatever and whoever- 'can do for you that matters;
it's what you do that,' -now,- t'hat does'
Mother Teresa showed us how,
(not her billions raised for Rome)
'feed the millions of starving people,
visit the millions of lonely people,
care for the billions of our neighbors?.....
one person-soul at a time.'
It not the sixties, or any other time that matters.
It is now!
The Lion reclines with the Lamb?Behind every myth is some truth. G.K. Chesterton once said, 'We tell our young about Dragons not so much because they are real or they are not real; rather we tell fairy tales about dragons to our young in order that when they encounter a Dragon that they might be defeated.'